Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Escudo Independence, Gold
| Issuer | Banco de Cabo Verde |
|---|---|
| Year | 1985 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Escudo (1 CVE) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central field displays the numeral '1' in large format above the inscription 'ESCUDO CABOVERDIANO' and the date '1985', arranged in descending horizontal lines. Below the denomination, the national coat of arms of Cape Verde is depicted, featuring a torch and wreath motif within a circular emblem. The circular legend 'REPÚBLICA DE CABO VERDE' runs along the periphery, flanked by beaded borders. The design is rendered in high relief with a polished proof finish characteristic of commemorative gold coinage. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Cabo Verde's 1985 independence commemorative gold issue marks a decade since the archipelago's separation from Portuguese administration in 1975 — an independence achieved without armed conflict on the islands themselves, though inseparable from the bloody Guinea-Bissau war that exhausted Lisbon's will to hold its African territories. The Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde governed both nations as a unified political project until the 1980 coup in Bissau severed that arrangement, leaving Cabo Verde to chart a singular path.
KM#23b distinguishes the .750 gold striking from the silver and other metal variants in this commemorative family — a relatively modest fineness for a gold issue of this period.